I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
AGNES MARTINI think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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